Disused Farmhouse To South West Of North And East Truas Farmhouses

This is a disused farmhouse, likely dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, situated to the southwest of North and East Truas Farmhouses. The building is constructed of slate stone rubble and quartz, with a rag slate roof, partially replaced with corrugated iron. The roof has gable ends, with a lower wing on the front right also having a gable. The roof structure above the left-hand side has been removed, the eaves line lowered, and replaced with shallow-sloping corrugated iron sheets, revealing the outline of the earlier roof on the left-hand gable. A stone axial stack backs onto the right-hand side of the passage.

The original plan likely comprised two rooms and a cross or through passage, with a hall on the right heated by a stack that backed onto the higher right-hand side of the passage. A lower end may have been unheated, or the stack removed, and features a shallow two-storey porch to the front of the passage. Around the mid-17th century, a shallow wing was possibly added to the front right-hand side of the hall range, possibly to house a staircase or an inner room. Around the 19th century, a one-room rectangular wing was added to the rear of the passage, with a further extension to the lower left-hand end.

The asymmetrical front has five windows. A lower range on the left has been reduced in height, re-roofed with a near-flat corrugated roof, and has had its front wall partly rebuilt. A shallow two-storey porch and a higher hall range are on the right, with a gable to the front wing on the right. The lower left range shows a straight joint near the left-hand gable end, indicating rebuilding, and has two window openings on the ground floor below a continuous slate sill, with two above. The two-storey porch has a likely early slate granite entrance with a chamfered lintel and jambs, with remains of bar and ball stops. A small, one-light greenstone window is set into the left-hand side of the porch, with remains of a window opening above. To the right, vestiges of a three-light mullion window remain, now reduced to two, originally lighting the hall. The gabled wing to the right is obscured by ivy and has at least one small, one-light greenstone window. The right-hand gable end was originally lit by similar greenstone windows on both the ground and first floors, visible only from the interior now.

Inside, the first-floor joists have been removed from the hall on the right. The hall fireplace, backing onto the passage, has an unmoulded greenstone lintel and a claom oven, with the remains of a first-floor fireplace visible above. An oak door frame with morticed jambs leads into the front right-hand wing. The roof above the hall was probably replaced in the 18th century; the four trusses have straight principals which are partly halved, lapped, and pegged at the apices. The collars are lap-jointed and pegged onto the face of the principals. The lower end was not inspected internally.